December 11, 1909 



HORTICULTURE 



845 



Seed Trade 



CROP ESTIMATES AND SHORT- 

 AGES. 



Since last Crop News was published 

 in HORTICULTURE final estimates 

 on the bean crop have been made. 

 These range on the wax varieties from 

 sixty to eighty per cent and on the 

 green pods from twenty to seventy 

 per cent. On Burpee's Bush Limas 

 estimates range from sixty to ninety 

 per cent. 



Early varieties of sugar corn are a 

 little short, but on late varieties esti- 

 mates run close to one hundred per 

 cent. It should be borne in mind how- 

 ever that corn has not yet been de- 

 livered, nor Is it in condition to be de- 

 livered, and when the actual ship- 

 ments are made there may be some 

 shortages not now expected. 



Garden beets with the exception of 

 Crosby's Egyptian, Detroit Turnip and 

 Edmand's Turnip will be delivered 

 nearly or quite in full. Of the three 

 varieties named deliveries will be 

 short, ranging from forty to sixty per 

 cent. The Yellow Mangels are all 

 short; probably deliveries will not ex- 

 ceed fifty to sixty per cent. Many of 

 the fancy varieties of pumpkins are 

 reported a total failure and the same 

 mav be said of several varieties of 

 muskmelons. While there are num- 

 erous other shortages these are ttie 

 most conspicuous. 



RELATIONS OF SUPPLY MEN AND 

 CANNERS. 



A meeting of the Board of Directors 

 of the Machinery and Supply Men's 

 Association, was held in Chicago on 

 the 7th inst. and in addition to the 

 usual routine, the question of an ex- 

 hibit at the annual convention of the 

 Canners at Atlantic City in February 

 next, was discussed. In view of the 

 fact that the convention at Its annual 

 meeting in Louisville voted unani- 

 mously to make no exhibits the com- 

 ing year, the directors felt that not- 

 withstanding certain members of the 

 association desired to make an exhibit, 

 they had no authority to veto the ac- 

 tion of the Association and it may 

 therefore be accepted as settled that 

 there will be no exhibit at Atlantic 

 City in February next. 



The question of the relations be- 

 tween the Machinery & Supply Men's 

 Association and the Canners' Associa- 

 tion, was descussed and strong ground 

 ■was taken against the assumption of 

 the latter to dictate to the Supplies 

 Association as to how their affairs 

 were to be conducted at the annual 

 convention, and especially with the 



practice which has g^own up during 

 the last few years of charging the 

 Machinery and Supply Men an en- 

 trance fee to view their own exhibits, 

 which fee went into the treasury of 

 tl'o Canners' Association. It may not 

 be advisable to state in detail all that 

 was said but it is earnestly hoped by 

 the members of the Machinery and 

 Supplies Association that the canners 

 will take a reasonable view of the re- 

 lations which should exist between 

 them, and recognize that they are an 

 independent and important organiza- 

 tion representing a greater capitaliza- 

 tion by far than the Canners' Associa- 

 tion, and entitled to something more 

 than being the tail of the Canners' 

 kite. Unless the latter are prepared 

 to make this concession and agree to 

 a reasonable recognition of the Ma- 

 chinery and Supply Men, they are 

 very li'^ely to hold independent con- 

 ventions after 1910. In this connec- 

 tion it may be entirely proper to say 

 that the date of the next annual con- 

 vention will be February Cth to 11th, 

 liilO, at Atlantic City as already stat- 

 ed. The headquarters to be The Ru- 

 dolph. 



It is practically the unanimous sen- 

 timent among both machinery men 

 and the majority of the canners, that 

 the attendance at the forthcoming con- 

 vention will be much smaller than 

 usual as the exhibits of the machin- 

 ery and supply men are recognized by 

 all as having been powerful drawing 

 cards. A small body among the lead- 

 ing canners have antagonized the As- 

 sociation to a considerable extent, and 

 it was for this reason that they voted 

 at their last convention to make no 

 exhibits the coming year. The result 

 will be watched with keen interest by 

 all interested parties. 



DUTCH SEED TRADE. 

 Renewed American Purchasing — Cur- 

 rent Price Quotations. 



Deputy Consul-General Ernest Voll- 

 mer makes the following report from 

 Rotterdam on the renewed activity 

 in the seed trade of Holland: 



The Netherlands is a country of in- 

 tensive agriculture, usually with cer- 

 tain crops highly specialized in cer- 

 tain regions. Thus from The Hague 

 to the Hook of Holland, in the so- 

 called "Westerland," most of the 

 country is devoted to fruit raising; in 

 the Sassenheim-Hillegom region flower 

 bulbs form the main agricultural pro- 

 duct. Seed crops, however, are grown 

 from one border of the country to 

 the other, and they form an important 

 item in the trade with the United 

 States. 



The total declared exports of seeds 

 to the United States through the Rot- 

 terdam consulate-general during 1907 

 amounted to almost $300,000, divided 



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